ART/SNEAK PEEK : SOAK UP SOME WATERCOLOR TALENT.They just don't get it. For decades, the U.S. art establishment has dismissed most watercolor painting watercolor painting, in its wider sense, refers to all pigments mixed with water rather than with oil and also to the paintings produced by this process; it includes fresco and tempera as well as aquarelle, the process now commonly meant by the generic term. as hopelessly quaint. That hasn't stopped the public from adoring it. The genre remains stubbornly popular, inspiring thousands of pros and hobbyists alike to keep their brushes in business. Maybe because it's blessed with unique light and otherworldly earth tones, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area also is blessed with watercolorists in profusion. Some are traditional, some experimental, and others a happy hybrid of the two. They're all represented in the Valley Watercolor Society's Annual Exhibit and Sale, continuing through Sept. 13 at Brand Library and Art Gallery, 1601 W. Mountain St. in Glendale. VWS VWS Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (Dutch ministry) VWS Views (US Postal service standard street suffix) VWS Ventana Wildlife Society (Salinas, California) donates money from the sale to Los Angeles public schools for badly needed art supplies, and it awards annual scholarships to talented art students. Gallery hours are 1 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The gallery will be closed on Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. . For information, call (818) 548-2051. North by Northeast North by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual three-day live music festival and music conference in Toronto, Ontario held the second weekend each June. It began in 1996 and was patterned on the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The Northeast Invitational, a 20th-anniversary fete honoring the Los Angeles County Century Gallery, opens with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. Including works by Horst Albers, Linda Allen, Margaret Gill, Bep Hogan-Esch, Rosa Odow, Duane Pickerell, Bea Piper and Jody Stowitts, among others, the free exhibition continues through Sept. 19. Hours for the gallery at 13000 Sayre St. in Sylmar are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. For information, call (818) 362-3220. Sherman Oaks show A nonjury show of original arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 7 at Valley Cities Jewish Community Center, 13164 Burbank Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. Some work will be available for sale. There is no entry fee. For information, call (818) 786-6310 or (213) 873-4620. Stern remedies Robert A.M. Stern, a New York-based architect of international stature, has been named to design the new Arts, Media and Communication Building at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . The old building, designed by modernist master Richard Neutra, was severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Most of the $18 million for the new structure will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the federal agency responsible for coordinating emergency planning, preparedness, risk reduction, response, and recovery. The agency works closely with state and local governments by funding emergency programs and providing technical . The facility will house the departments of art, journalism and radio-television-film and will include a 125-seat screening facility. Stern's best-known work in the Los Angeles area is his suitably playful design for the Feature Animation Building at Disney Studios in Burbank. Wagons West The myths and realities of the 1848 gold rush still run deep in our home state. But even before the gold diggers Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. poured in, another group of immigrants already were making history in the Golden State: members of the Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
A small exhibition of their letters, diaries and drawings continues on display through Sept. 21 at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. ``Latter-day Saints in El Dorado: The Mormon Presence in California, 1846-1856'' is open noon to 4:30 p.m. daily except Mondays. For information call (818) 405-2141. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: This work by Bonnie Ainsworth is among those on display at the Valley Watercolor Society's Annual Exhibit and Sale in Glendale. |
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